I’ve been trying out Tinkle and the Parrot Minidrone. Tinkle allows you to create code that you can then use to control the drone via Bluetooth.
Think this has all sorts of fun possibilities. Set the speed to 30% and fly for 10 second and see how far you get. Try it a different speed percentage to see what happens. Use this information to have students calculate the velocity of the drone. Set up a land based course that they then have to program the drone to navigate over, around or under. Set different speed requirements so students need to calculate the time required to fly to navigate the course. Lots of possibilities!!
Thinks this will either be an After-School Activity or a part of my current Robotics and Coding Class.
This afternoon I went to the gym and tried the following code out.
The video below is the result.